The attractive daughter of Austrian-Jewish émigrés who fled their homeland to Paris in 1937 before coming to America, "B" actress Vanessa Brown grew up exceptionally fluent in German, French, Italian and English. She auditioned for Lillian Hellman at age 13 sporting a perfect Teutonic accent and earned the chance to understudy Ann Blyth on Broadway...
May 21, 1999, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States
Place Of Birth
Vienna, Austria
Profession
Actress
Spouse
Mark Sandrich Jr. (m. 1959–1989), Robert Alan Franklyn (m. 1950–1957)
Children
Cathy Sandrich, David Sandrich
Star Sign
Aries
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
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I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
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The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.
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Fact
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A lover of music, she often wrote her own songs and instrumentals for her own pleasure (none of which were ever recorded).
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Was a naturalized citizen of the United States.
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She was an ardent conservative-minded Republican.
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Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes were scattered in the Garden of Roses located in Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California.
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Played the girl upstairs, the neighbor of Tom Ewell, in the original Broadway production of "The Seven Year Itch", the part Marilyn Monroe later played with Ewell in the Billy Wilder film, The Seven Year Itch (1955).
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Her first husband, Dr. Robert Franklyn, was a popular Hollywood plastic surgeon. She apparently divorced him when she refused to go under the knife.
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Lost her home in the 1989 Los Angeles earthquake.
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Daughter Cathy Sandrich Gelfond (born in 1961) became a top casting director, and son David Sandrich (born in 1964) became a linguistic major and computer whiz.
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Wrote the play "Europa and the Bull" and a non-fiction work entitled "The Manpower Policies of Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz." There was also a novel and an unfinished autobiography.
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Directed "Meg," a prize-winning play, in Los Angeles in 1978.
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Played a minor role of a maid in the film, The Heiress (1949), starring Oscar-winner Olivia de Havilland. Interestingly, she played the "de Havilland" part on radio, a few years later.
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Ex-daughter-in-law of director/producer Mark Sandrich.
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Ex-sister-in-law of director/producer Jay Sandrich.
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She was a regular on the radio show "Quiz Kids" for two years.